22 AUGUST 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IN the list of the Ministry of France, as we gave it last week, there is a small correction to make,—Admiral de Rigny has refused the office of Marine Minister. No person has...

Mr. Russell, in his ingenious Tour through Germany, was, we

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be- lieve, the first who from the evidence of facts demonstrated the ill- founded nature of the bitter attacks on the King.of Prussia, in which r the politicaljournals for...

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The latest news from Portugal indicates something like the approach

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of a reign of more moderation than Miguel has for months past been accustomed to exercise. Some prisoners at Oporto, instead of being hanged, have been banished to Africa....

Another sweep of the unhappy Whites in that sink of

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pestilence, Sierra Leone, has taken place. Mr. K. Macauley and twenty others, almost all of them old settlers, and hardened, as it was supposed, to the deadly influence of the...

Buenos Ayres is still in a very pitiable condition. Lavalle

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and his party are completely hemmed in by the armies of Santa Fig and the Montoneros. The quarrel with the French commander is made up, and the vessels that had been seized are...

Lord Amherst, according to the last arrivals from India, has

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deter- 'rained that the government shall be ambulatory as well as himself. Lord Amherst, according to the last arrivals from India, has deter- 'rained that the government shall...

THE PIRATES AND THE PRESS. — The Jamaica papers express in very

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strong terms their sense of the alleged neglect of Admiral Fleming in not giving sue. THE PIRATES AND THE PRESS. — The Jamaica papers express in very strong terms their sense of...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING, ELEVEN o'CLocE.. — Our market presents now a very different appearance from that of Friday and Saturday last. The alarm which then prevailed...

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THE Coutcr.—The King held a Court on Monday, at Windsor

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Castle. His Majesty and suite left the Royal Lodge iu Windsor Park about two o'clock, es- corted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, and proceeded to the Palace by the...

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POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SATURDAY, Two o'CLoCit. There is no regular arrival this day from Paris, but private letters have been received in the City by express, of Thursday's date. Ac- counts had...

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MEAT FOR THE LONDON MARKET.

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THE London markets have contrived to acquire for themselves an odious notoriety of late, from the exposure for sale of corrupt and cor- rupting meat. The technical name of "wet...

MR. LANDSEER'S PAMPHLET.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. WE confess that we have been unable , to extract the materials of amusement out of the singularly revolting correspondence, which has been given in one of...

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DECLINE OF THE DRAMA.

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THE Foreign Quarterly Review quotes from the Revue Musicale some remarks on theatrical speculations ; which, it shows, are as un- profitable in France as in England. ` Every...

ARNAUD ON WHIST.

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Tins book promises well, for it professes in the title-page to be ar- ranged on a plan " calculated to give rapid proficiency to a player of the dullest perception and worst...

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ROYAL PORTRAITS.

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WE have just been looking at the new engraving of the King in his Coronation Robes ; and have been not a little astonished at the pro- digious brilliancy with which the engraver...

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.

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A NEW musical entertainment, called The Spring Lock, from the pen of Mr. PEAKE, was produced at this theatre on Tuesday evening. The plot combined two popular stories, of which...

CONSTANTINOPLE.

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PEOPLE once talked of Constantinople almost as they did of Laputa, Utopia, or the North Pole ; such a thing might be, but no one was able to make his way thither to ascertain...

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LADY MORGAN'S BOUDOIR.*

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. LADY MORGAN'S boudoir is about the very last room in Dublin we should care to enter. Her book is a fair specimen of what we might expect to meet with in the...

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WYSE'S HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.*

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IT would have been wrong to have permitted this great body to pass away without honouring its memory with an historical 6loge. Its history will always form an important chanter...

PHRENOLOGY.

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A LITTLE book called Horce PIrnmalogic:.1 brcn nut into out hands. We'::xpecte(i io find in it more disp... , Able matter than we Lind it to contain. It is neither more nor...

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NOTES ON LADY FANSHAWE'S MEMOIRS.

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THERE is something extremely affecting in the enumeration of the burying-places of her offspring by a widowed mother. The list of the children gone before her, as given by Lady...

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BIOGRAPHY OF SIR. IIUMPHRY DAVY, CONTINUED.

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CHAPTER FIFTH. As minute chemical detail is wholly inconsistent with the plan of a popular memoir, the author must leave the task of following Sir HUMPHRY DAVY, through his...

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TOPOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTIONS.* NO. 1.—EXETER 'CHANGE.

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THE first Exeter 'Change was a very handsome pile, with an arcade in front, a gallery above, and shops in both. On its site stood the parsonage-house for the parish of St....

THE BAR—SOME:: 4 REFORDIATION NECESSARY.

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Pr is admitted on all hands, that the charges upon justice amount, as regards the mass of the people, to a prohibitory tax. Of these expenses, no inconsiderable portion, if not...

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THE ARMY.

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WAR - OFFICE, Aug. 17.—Memorandum : the half-pay of the undermentioned Officers bas been cancelled from the 18th inst. inclusive, upon their receiving a commuted allow- ance for...

GLEANINGS.

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DESTRUCTION OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN CAVE OF KUHLOCK.—Professor Buckland dommunicates to Mr. Richard Taylor, the editor of the Philosophical Magazine, as accutua of the recent...

THE CHURCH.

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The Rev. G. Taylor, B.A. has been instituted to the Rectory of Clopton, Suffolk, oe the presentation of A. Taylor, Esq. of Norwich—The Rev. E. Cobbold, of Watlington, Norfolk,...

ARISTIDES IN REPLY.

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SIR,—Your correspondent common Sense seems to coincide in my opinion. The writer who signs C. has a sweeping censure for all who happen to entertain a different opinion from...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.

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The Company's ship Rose, for whose safety, we stated last week, some apprehensions were entettatited,hai at lenstb.arrived. For some ream, which hes not been untidier. w ily ex...

BOOKS PUBLISHED DURING THE WEEK.

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Thomson's Atlas to Bateman, royal Svo. 31. Is. bds—Best's Cuma, a Poem, Svo. bds.—Some Account of the life of Reginald Heber, 18mo. 5s. hcls.—Page on the Pour- Laws, second...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, August IS. PARTNERSIII rs Dr ss ()LYE n.—Lockwood and Co. Manchester, tailors—Collard and Hubbard, Re g ent-street, milliners—J. and W. George, Tetcott, Devonshire,...

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, Auc. 21. The supply of grain in general this week is unusually small, and the weather still continuin g very unsettled, somewhat hi g her prices are...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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lit erns,.—On the 14th inst. at Little Hampton, the Countess of Surrey, of a daughter —At the house of her father, Sir S. Newport, Newtown, county Waterford. the Lady of th e t...